My little sis Emily (and my mom) graciously gave us her old dresser when we moved up to Portland. It was a neutral butter yellow and had some nice white knobs. However, I've been watching a lot of HGTV and I needed to exercise some of my new skills (because if you watch it on TV, you know how to do it). I painted the sucker a nice mint green, antiqued it (that was no fun! it was harder than you'd think and I actually had to use some artistic flair. hint: it is ALL about the wetness of your paper towel/dabbing device) and then we figured we were done.
Then Eric and I took a step back and realized it needed some more pizzazz. We went to Michael's, bought some supplies, tried out some stenciling (bad pick of stencils, turned out to look like an O'Neill ad), and settled on some wooden shapes. These puppies were ornate, well-sized, and loved our paint/antique treatment. We glued them on lickety split and here's what we got:
aaaaaaaand, the closeup:
I think we'll be Vern Yip and Paige Davis for Halloween.
7 comments:
I LOVE it. Can you come to my house? We need revamping.
um, AWESOME!!
come do MY dressers too! lol
i seriously love the color, and those shapes you added? saweeet!
RAQUEL! I've found you!
I'm so happy you guys finally made the move. How are you!?!?
I will call you soon, if not sooner, on your bday, of course.
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Really something. Wow.
You guys are TOTALLY HGTV! Love it! That dresser looks so adorable! You should be proud. Now you're making me want to do my dresser!
Nice work Rach!
Eric is going to be Page and you are going to be Vern right?? I will need photos of that!!
BTW - we miss Eric here at the office, being mean to him on Yahoo is just NOT the same...
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